I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
BARBARA WALTERSSuccess can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Most old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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